Over the past year or so we have seen a number of our clients have various types problems with their email accounts.
A common reason we see these problems, is that they get hacked. The most common reason they get hacked is that people insist on continuing to use extremely easy to hack passwords!
Your Email Password Is Much Easier To Hack Than You Think
Don’t take our word for it, read these two very good articles:
Why Your Passwords Are Easy To Hack
35% of Users Have Weak Passwords
Your Email Password Is Much Easier To Hack Than You Think
If you follow our recommendations you will go from an estimated one day to hack your passwords (as they are today) to an estimated six months to hack them.
Change The Password On Your Email Account To A Secure Password
Make sure everyone in your company does the same.
A Secure Password Will Have:
- no real words in it
- upper and lower case letters
- special characters
- numbers
- At least 12 characters long (the longer the better)
- Not the same as any other password you use
An example of what a secure password looks like is, scF2#L159n:w
How to remember all these funky passwords?
Don’t even try, we recommend using a password manager and never allowing your browser to "remember your passwords".
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